Transcribed from the 1897 Welsh National Press Company edition,

THE VISIONS
OF THE
SLEEPING BARD

BEING

ELLIS WYNNE’S

“Gweledigaetheu y BarddCwsc”

TRANSLATEDBY

ROBERT GWYNEDDON DAVIES

LONDON:SIMPKIN, MARHSALL & CO., LIMITED.

CARNARVON:THE WELSH NATIONAL PRESS COMPANY, LIMITED

MDCCCXCVII

TO
PROFESSOR JOHN RHŶS, M.A., LL.D.
PRINCIPAL OF JESUS COLLEGE,OXFORD
AND
VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITYCOLLEGE
OF NORTH WALES,
IN TOKEN OF
His Distinguished Scholarship andUnrivalled
Services
TO
CELTIC LITERATURE
This Translation
IS
Respectfully Dedicated

PREFACE

At the National Eisteddfod of 1893,a prize was offered by Mr. Lascelles Carr, of the WesternMail, for the best translation of Ellis Wynne’sVision of Hell.  The Adjudicators (Dean Howell andthe Rev. G. Hartwell Jones, M.A.), awarded the prize for thetranslation which is comprised in the present volume.  Theremaining Visions were subsequently rendered into English, andthe complete work is now published in the hope that it may proveuseful to those readers, who, being unacquainted with the Welshlanguage, yet desire to obtain some knowledge of itsliterature.

My best thanks are due to the Rev. J. W. Wynne Jones, M.A.,Vicar of Carnarvon, for much help and valuable criticism; to theRev. R Jones, MA., Rector of Llanfair-juxta-Harlech, throughwhose courtesy I am enabled to produce (from a photograph byOwen, Barmouth) a page of the register of that parish, containingentries in Ellis Wynne’s handwriting; and to Mr. IsaacFoulkes, Liverpool, for the frontispiece, which appeared in hislast edition of the Bardd Cwsc.

R. GWYNEDDON DAVIES.

Caernarvon,
      1st July, 1897.

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